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The effect of Cr impurity to superconductivity in electron-doped BaFe2-xNixAs2
We use transport and magnetization measurements to study the effect of
Cr-doping to the phase diagram of the electron-doped superconducting
BaFe2-xNixAs2 iron pnictides. In principle, adding Cr to electron-doped
BaFe2-xNixAs2 should be equivalent to the effect of hole-doping. However, we
find that Cr doping suppresses superconductivity via impurity effect, while not
affecting the normal state resistivity above 100 K. We establish the phase
diagram of Cr-doped BaFe2-x-yNixCryAs2 iron pnictides, and demonstrate that
Cr-doping near optimal superconductivity restore the long-range
antiferromagnetic order suppressed by superconductivity.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Doping evolution of antiferromagnetism and transport properties in the non-superconducting BaFe2-2xNixCrxAs2
We report elastic neutron scattering and transport measurements on the Ni and
Cr equivalently doped iron pnictide BaFeNiCrAs.
Compared with the electron-doped BaFeNiAs, the long-range
antiferromagnetic (AF) order in BaFeNiCrAs is
gradually suppressed with vanishing ordered moment and N\'{e}el temperature
near without the appearance of superconductivity. A detailed analysis
on the transport properties of BaFeNiAs and
BaFeNiCrAs suggests that the non-Fermi-liquid
behavior associated with the linear resistivity as a function of temperature
may not correspond to the disappearance of the static AF order. From the
temperature dependence of the resistivity in overdoped compounds without static
AF order, we find that the transport properties are actually affected by Cr
impurity scattering, which may induce a metal-to-insulator crossover in highly
doped BaFeNiCrAs.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figure
Effect of hydrogen sulfide on PC12 cell injury induced by high ATP concentration
Purpose: To investigate the potential protective effect of hydrogen sulfide against neural cell damage induced by a high-concentration of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).Methods: PC12 cells were incubated with ATP in order to induce cell damage. The extracellular level of H2S and protein expression of cystathionine-Ξ²-synthase (CBS) were determined. The PC12 cells pretreated with NaHS, aminooxyacetic acid (AOAA) and KN-62, prior to further incubation with ATP, and the effect of the treatments on cell viability was investigated.Results: High-concentration ATP induced cell death in PC12 cells, and this was accompanied by markedly increased contents of extracellular H2S and CBS expression (p < 0.05). The ATP-induced cytotoxicity was significantly compromised after pretreatment with H2S. (p < 0.05). The viability of PC12 cells pretreated with NaHS and AOAA was significantly higher than that of PC12 cells treated with ATP alone. In addition, the viability of ATP-treated PC12 cells was further markedly increased after pretreatment with NaHS and KN-62 (p < 0.05).Conclusion: ATP induced a concentration- and time-dependent cytotoxicity in PC12 cells via theendogenous H2S/CBS system. Supplementation with exogenous H2S mitigated the cell damageinduced by high concentration of ATP via a specific mechanism which may be specifically related to P2X7R
Characterizing and Detecting WebAssembly Runtime Bugs
WebAssembly (abbreviated WASM) has emerged as a promising language of the Web and also been used
for a wide spectrum of software applications such as mobile applications and desktop applications. These
applications, named as WASM applications, commonly run in WASM runtimes. Bugs in WASM runtimes
are frequently reported by developers and cause the crash of WASM applications. However, these bugs have
not been well studied. To fill in the knowledge gap, we present a systematic study to characterize and detect
bugs in WASM runtimes. We first harvest a dataset of 311 real-world bugs from hundreds of related posts on
GitHub. Based on the collected high-quality bug reports, we distill 31 bug categories of WASM runtimes and
summarize their common fix strategies. Furthermore, we develop a pattern-based bug detection framework to
automatically detect bugs in WASM runtimes. We apply the detection framework to seven popular WASM
runtimes and successfully uncover 60 bugs that have never been reported previously, among which 13 have
been confirmed and 9 have been fixed by runtime developers
Tracking the nematicity in cuprate superconductors: a resistivity study under uniaxial pressure
Overshadowing the superconducting dome in hole-doped cuprates, the pseudogap
state is still one of the mysteries that no consensus can be achieved. It has
been suggested that the rotational symmetry is broken in this state and may
result in a nematic phase transition, whose temperature seems to coincide with
the onset temperature of the pseudogap state around optimal doping level,
raising the question whether the pseudogap results from the establishment of
the nematic order. Here we report results of resistivity measurements under
uniaxial pressure on several hole-doped cuprates, where the normalized slope of
the elastoresistivity can be obtained as illustrated in iron-based
superconductors. The temperature dependence of along particular lattice
axis exhibits kink feature at and shows Curie-Weiss-like behavior above
it, which may suggest a spontaneous nematic transition. While seems to
be the same as around the optimal doping and in the overdoped region,
they become very different in underdoped LaSrCuO. Our results
suggest that the nematic order, if indeed existing, is an electronic phase
within the pseudogap state.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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